On Sunday the 1st March 2020 over 700 competitors ran in the fifth Colegio Bolivar 5K Verde Run. This event brings together all members of our community in a fun, for some a grueling, 5K run around the school and surrounding area. The run also is a catalyst for planting trees for our city, Cali, […]
We have multiple projects going on in the garden this year. Not only have we continued our coffee harvesting but we have also begun a new project involving different types of sweet potato. Obviously, the fact that we have all this amount of new plants in the garden means that we should take extra care […]
After the success of planting coffee in the Bolivar garden, we are hopeful for this next project that is coming. As an assignment for agriculture, each student has to work on writing a monograph about a plant we were interested in. In my case, I chose to write about Phaseolus vulgaris, which is the common […]
Don Simón has finally become a reality. After the planting of the first trees in 2017, we have had our first major cosecha and processed the beans, and our graphic design department has come up with our logo. The first Don Simón to be prepared and drunk was done so with staff on the 19th […]
After the coffee has had enough time to harvest we have to pick them off the plant. We do this by looking at the color of the shell of the coffee, if it’s anywhere from a vibrant red to a yellowish tinted red; then, the coffee is ready to be picked from the plant. […]
